Quotes About Art

Violence existed before our music was even suggested.

The music is in the air. Take as much as you want.

A big part of country music is a way of life, at least from my standpoint. That's how I craft my music from my own life experiences.

Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes.

Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?

Music is a defining element of character.

I'm really passionate about music - I get really emotionally connected, probably in a weird way.

Lucidity is the first purpose of color in music.

I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.

Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.

I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.

In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

Jazz is a beautiful word. I love it.

Music, you know, true music not just rock 'n' roll, chooses you.

That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.

A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly direct, emotional, sensuous perception of the work.

Music should be a collective magic and hysteria.

I would do anything to be around music. You don't even have to pay me.

Music is worth doing just because. It doesn't have to be justified by some political point of view, and it's kind of insulting to the music to make it a tool for something else.

The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession!

Music is a fundamental human right

Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy.

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.